# Pet Peeves only you have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001 "2018-04-07T21:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/61 "2018-04-09T13:55:16Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I hate when I get ketchup on myself. This usually happens when my teenage son has made a mess of some kind and left a bit of ketchup somewhere I don’t expect it. I end up feeling like those people who shriek and freak out when they see a snake or have a large spider on them. “Get if off me. Get if OFF OF ME!” I can’t stand the stuff and it feels weird. I feel the same way, it makes my skin crawl! > [@nelliebly](#): > > 1. One line in Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”: There is nothing about that song that _doesn’t_ piss me off. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m not sure exactly what bugs me about this. Are people really drinking all this red wine? And from tall, stemmed wine glasses? Polishing off bottle after bottle? Every day? With or before every meal except breakfast? Guilty. :o Well, hardly ever at lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/62 "2018-04-09T14:09:43Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > No, no, and NO! > > You guys don’t get it. It doesn’t matter if the wait staff is asking how the food is or if I want something else. > > The point is when dining (especially in an upscale expensive restaurant) I want to be left the fuck alone until I call them over. **I gave the example of how I’ve seen it done in other countries and it works quite nicely.** > > When I’m paying several hundred dollars for a nice meal and bottles of expensive wine I don’t want some blathering twit interrupting intimate conversation or enjoyment of the fare. That kind of philistinism is best done at greasy spoons and truck stop diners. > > And if you don’t agree with me on this, please refer to the title of the thread! 😉 I didn’t deny that it was annoying - I agree that it is annoying to get interrupted by servers asking how your food is. I was just mentioning the reason they do it. They have an agenda of not-letting-the-restaurant-get-scammed-by-shady-customers that conflicts with your agenda of enjoying-a-meal-in-peace. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/63 "2018-04-09T14:25:09Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > … > I also know of no other cop who hates this shit as much as me. Hence my contribution to this thread. Can a humble citizen make a request 🙂 My pet peeve is misaligned headlights that blast me in my mirrors, making it genuinely hazardous to be driving. The culprit is usually a pick-up truck that someone has jacked up-- unmodified factory vehicles are usually just fine. Can you police folk start flooding these with citations? “Hi sir, we noticed you’ve modified your truck, we just need to do a simple safety check walkaround…” Ticket revenue ensues… ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/64 "2018-04-09T14:51:50Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I also hate, hate, hate when I order something from eBay or Amazon marketplace, and they send it in one of those padded envelopes that has a tear strip for opening, and the sender has put shipping tape over the strip, so you have to find scissors, and worry you will damage the item when you cut the envelop. This happens ALL THE TIME. How about the one where the tear strip _isn’t_ taped over but when you pull on it, the tear gets about an inch and a half across the package, then the tab comes off in your hand? :mad: And as long as I’m talking about inept “easy open” packaging, let me present for your consideration, [Harvest Snaps](https://www.instacart.com/costco/products/16461607-calbee-original-snapea-crisps-harvest-snaps-20-oz) in the 20-oz package. The package is a tough mylar and foil combination. The perforations in the white dashes across the green area are about 50% and there’s a zip-lock enclosure welded to the bag’s insides just below that. Poking at that little Open Here bump does nothing in particular; the perforation to intact ratio is too small. I once used a snap knife to painstakingly cut through the areas between the perforations and triumphantly spread open the bag – only to have the zip-lock tear loose from the bag wall. Now I just whack the top off with a pair of scissors and reseal it with a clip. The guy who designed that should refund his salary. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/65 "2018-04-09T15:25:22Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Guilty. :o > Well, hardly ever at lunch. At least do me the personal favor of drinking it out of a coffee cup! Or the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/66 "2018-04-09T15:43:27Z")
If you think it will help. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/67 "2018-04-09T16:19:21Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > If you think it will help. 😃 It might. But’s more that you care enough to make the effort. ---
**Author:** ![Maurie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Maurie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maurie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/68 "2018-04-09T16:40:34Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Many of mine have been covered, so here’s a new one: > > In TV dramas (I watch mostly police/detective/mystery stuff) as soon as someone comes home from work, s/he immediately opens a bottle of red wine, pours, and proceeds to drink from a long-stemmed glass. When eating dinner, whether homemade or take-out, again with the red wine in the stemmed wine glass. Tune in randomly to any drama where people are in the kitchen, whether eating, cooking, or going over the details of the murder, and they will be drinking red wine from stemmed glasses. WTF? > > I’m not sure exactly what bugs me about this. Are people really drinking all this red wine? And from tall, stemmed wine glasses? Polishing off bottle after bottle? Every day? With or before every meal except breakfast? > > I used to put away a LOT of wine back in the early 80s. Never used a wine glass, usually a coffee cup to minimize the possibility of spillage/breakage/cleanup-age. > > I guess it’s the fact that it’s such a cliche. Aggravates the crap out of me. > > I’ll go now. Another offender here. Not every single day, but most. And I like it in a wine glass, because why not? It’s a lovely, decadent part of my day, and using a nice glass adds to the experience somehow. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/69 "2018-04-09T16:44:18Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I didn’t deny that it was annoying - I agree that it is annoying to get interrupted by servers asking how your food is. I was just mentioning the reason they do it. > > They have an agenda of not-letting-the-restaurant-get-scammed-by-shady-customers that conflicts with your agenda of enjoying-a-meal-in-peace. I would have put it more to a cultural difference. When I first moved abroad, it really peeved me that service was so inattentive (in general.) I expected to be asked how the meal was, if I needed anything, and had the check in front of me soon after I finished my last bite. Abroad, I had to flag servers down for everything and it felt like I needed a flare gun to get their attention when I was in a hurry and wanted to leave and get the check (which, most of the time, I was.) Then I just settled into the culture and began to enjoy not being rushed through my meal and intermittently checked up on. When I worked service, it was never to ensure “fly in the soup” types of complaining customer scenarios. It was to honestly check in on the customer and make them feel like they’re being taken care of, and because some customers were shy to complain but, when asked, might be prompted to make a comment that could be rectified. It’s what most US customers expect, from my experience, and it certainly was something that I expected until I learned there was another way. And especially if the owner is around, even if I don’t feel like being bothered, it’s pretty much expected (to me) that they go around and check in on everybody to make sure their customers are happy. I was at a restaurant just outside of Green Bay this past weekend, and I was charmed by the owner checking in on every table to make sure everybody was having a good time and a good meal. (As well as the servers a couple of times.) It’s just one of those American things, I think. This is obviously a “peeves only you have” thread, so the people complaining are going to be exceptional in this regard, so most people do like this kind of attention. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/70 "2018-04-09T16:54:48Z")
My local sports anchor always begins his broadcasts with, “Hi there, everyone. How’re ya doing?” and then launches into the sports. Not entirely sure why it bugs me so damn much, but it might be that I’ve watched too many kids shows. This faux interactivity is usually followed by a pause, and I think my brain wants that. But that would be weird on the news. ---
**Author:** ![UncleMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e0b2c6/32.png) [@UncleMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/71 "2018-04-09T17:03:21Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > People who put the year stickers all over their rear license plate. It goes on the lower right hand corner over the previous year sticker, not all over the rest of the plate so I can’t decipher the actual plate number. > > I love, Love, LOVE issuing citations to the retards (yes, **RETARDS!** Bite me!) who do this and have yet to have 1 single person not get convicted on the zillion cites I’ve issued for it. > > I also know of no other cop who hates this shit as much as me. Hence my contribution to this thread. Where are you located? In Massachusetts, we put the sticker over the old one in the upper right corner. The other thing that is apparently different in New England is that we don’t have to carry insurance proof. I’ve never run into it myself, but I always wondered what happens when a cop pulls over a tourist whose response is “what the hell is proof of insurance”? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/72 "2018-04-09T17:06:46Z")
> [@](#): > > …and because some customers were shy to complain but, when asked, might be prompted to make a comment that could be rectified. It’s probably like teaching, that way. If you just tell the students “And be sure to ask if you have any questions” and wait in the front of the room, you’ll be waiting in the front of the room all period. But if you walk around the room and glance at what everyone’s doing, you’ll spend most of your time answering questions. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/73 "2018-04-09T17:12:41Z")
> [@CoastalMaineiac](#): > > Well, anyone who drives a big rig probably shares this one with me, but middle lane loafers on a six-lane highway. > > My state has a keep right law on any highway where the speed limit is 65 miles per hour or more. It does not change to “keep middle” just because they add a third lane. But when they add that third lane, it’s off limits to truckers, so middle lane loafers effectively prevent truckers from passing anyone unless there’s space on the right. They usually tend to be the oblivious types, as well, so they’re often doing about 15 or 20 miles below the posted limit, unaware of anyone behind them. Here in Colorado because one of my pet peeves is when a trucker decides that another truck doing 45 (in a 75 zone) in the far right lane isn’t fast enough so they pass them in the middle lane doing 46. In fact, many times there are truckers hanging out in the middle lane doing 20 mph below the speed limit with a clear right lane. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/74 "2018-04-09T17:15:57Z")
Oh, and another one: I HATE it when a movie or TV show has a scene in a college classroom, and a BELL RINGS to end class. No college campus in the country uses a bell system to end classes. I get it that they need a device to signal class is over, but use the real-life one: students start packing up, and the prof looks at the clock. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/75 "2018-04-09T17:18:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > …And from tall, stemmed wine glasses? … I prefer a 16oz [Old Fashioned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fashioned_glass). Heavy base and low profile prevents spills, etched glass for better grip, large surface area for faster breathing, glass (I’ve upgraded from the plastic tumbler…you grow) for better heat transfer. And of course, an honest serving size. I don’t drink white wine because it tastes like sap, and sap is icky. I’ll take the biggest, fattest red you have. Pet peeve: message board readers who consistently apply the least generous interpretation to one aspect of a post, completely disregarding context provided in the rest of the post, posting history, and basic humanity. And then derail the thread taking the poster to task on that one item. Also: “Patriotic” country music. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/76 "2018-04-09T18:33:17Z")
Two phone related, and possibly UK specific. It’s an offence to use a mobile phone whilst driving a car. But seemingly it isn’t an offence to stop your car wherever the hell you like, put the hazard lights on and answer the phone. I have seen people do this right on the exit of junctions - far more dangerous than using the phone whilst driving. Less dangerous but even more annoying, there is a culture of walking along the street (or riding in a bus, or sitting in the park, etc) and using a mobile on hands-free. What the hell for? They come with a microphone and a speaker so you can put them next to your face and piss everyone else off just that little bit less. Still, it’s a behaviour which has created a new crime - kids on mopeds snatching phones as they drive by (not on a bus, obviously…). Still - well done. I can’t see security camera film of a robbery like this without breaking into a smile. j ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/77 "2018-04-09T18:51:13Z")
My own is when I’m getting my haircut and they fold my ear down over itself when clipping. Under the smock, white knuckled fists. I never say anything since I want them to concentrate on the cut and not worry about what seems to be an infrequent peeve. > [@pkbites](#): > > While at a restaurant you’ll be conversing with your dinner guest, or worse yet have a mouth full of food and the waitress will pop up and say [most annoying voice you can imagine] “how’s everything tasting!?!” :mad: I can add an annoyance multiplier: when the ask about my particular item. “How’s that KC Masterpiece Smokey Southwest® Slider Combo™ tasting for ya?” Also, being asked if I’m still working on eating/drinking something. “You still working on that Blue Moon draft?” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/78 "2018-04-09T19:01:29Z")
> [@Maurie](#): > > Another offender here. Not every single day, but most. And I like it in a wine glass, because why not? It’s a lovely, decadent part of my day, and using a nice glass adds to the experience somehow. People IRL can do whatever they want. It bugs me that this cliche shows up so often on tv. ---
**Author:** ![leschulz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@leschulz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leschulz)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/79 "2018-04-09T19:15:02Z")
My pet peeve is the websites where when you hit the back button, instead of going back to the previous page, it takes you back to the previous site. I’ve noticed this on all the SBNation sites, Vox, and others. It’s really annoying! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001/80 "2018-04-09T19:27:55Z")
People that leave their dog outside to bark indefinitely as if they can’t hear them too. The whole freakin’ neighborhood hears those shrill little barks but the person who owns the little fucker doesn’t seem to be bothered in the least bit. Why the fuck do you have a little yapper in the first place?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeves-only-you-have/812001.md?page=5)